May 12, 2015

2 years after going public Twitter continues to bleed and loose money. It lost $162 million despite bringing in $436 million in revenue. Since its IPO in late 2013, it has lost a cumulative $1.25 billion over six quarters.

Facebook too went through the same phase and did not make profit it the first few quarters .however 6 quarters into its IPO ,Facebook generated almost $1 billion in cumulative profit. Now, some three years after going public, it has made almost $5 billion.

August 19, 2014

Though Radio revenues fell by 3% year-over-year in Q2 this year as gains in digital (+9%) and off-air (+13%) were unable to offset a 5% decline in spot revenues, While many of Radio’s top categories saw slightly diminished Spot spending in Q2, a few categories saw small
increases as well.Ranked and measured in on dollar volumeThe only two top categories to increase spot spending for the quarter were Healthcare +1% and Professional services +3%

“The list of Top 10” list of product categories across Radio that generates biggest revenues to Radio and consistently maintain a majority share of voice on Radio’s airwaves

September 7, 2012

The Windows division is still much more profitable,
earning $11.5 billion compared versus $7.4 billion for Servers & Tools. And
one of the reasons Windows generated less revenue than Server & Tools is
that Windows 7 is
at the end of its run.

Server and Tools is the division that sells server
versions of Windows, database software, Azure cloud services,
software-development tools, system-management products and enterprise services.While the U.S. smartphone population has more than doubled in size over the past two years, the population of Microsoft phone owners has declined.

September 1, 2012

Dan Dummer has charted out a great Post showing Apple Financial performance under Steve Jobs at Splatf goes without saying that Steve Jobs’ effect on Apple was profound. You don’t call a guy the best corporate leader in history for nothing. But just how dramatically did Steve turn Apple around in the 14 years after Gil Amelio got the boot? The chart shows exactly that

Based on this comparison of Apple’s 10-Q report from the June quarter of 1997 — right before Jobs started to increase his role at Apple — and Apple’s most recent quarterly results, it’s pretty amazing

May 24, 2012

PlanGridis the example of a startup applying new technology to an industry that has been more or less stuck in the Stone Age: It offers a platform that will allow people in the construction industry to share blueprints without having to invest in printing and re-printing plans over and over again. With an average charge of $35 per person per month, that has the potential to translation into a $7 billion addressable market.

Flutter

It seems like everyone loves Microsoft Kinect, which has brought gesture control mainstream. The problem is that in order to use it, you need a dedicated piece of hardware.Flutterchanges that by enabling users to control their computers with the same type of gestures using nothing more than the PC’s webcam. While Kinect has sold 18 million units, Flutter says its addressable market is the 5 billion computers with webcams: that’s a huge number.

Sonalight

Sonalightsolves a pretty big problem for mobile users — it gives them the power to do hands-free voice control of their phones. The big pitch is being able to send a text message without even having to take the phone out of a user’s pocket, which it says will save lives. While texting is the first use case, Sonalight could also enable hands-free email, maps, navigation and search, and could provide tech to be used for Siri-like control of your TV.

Crowdtilt

Crowdtiltis attempting to tackle what is a pretty common problem — how to pool funds between groups of friends.. The company is growing 21 percent week over week — and that’s in the amount of money it’s processing, not the number of users that have signed up. So far it’s processed more than $400,000, with 34 percent of users coming back more than once.

Kyte

Kyte’spitch is to parents whose children are chomping at the bit to own a smartphone, but who don’t want those kids to be able to access the open Internet or any type of apps that aren’t age appropriate. The Kyte app solves that by turning any Android phone into a kid’s phone, one that can only make calls and access apps that parents have approved. The app charges about $10 a month and based on a population of around 50 million kids in the U.S., gives it an addressable market of $6 billion a year.

April 7, 2012

Foxconn Hints at IPhone 5 Release in June : "Foxconn is in the process of massive scaling of their operations to prepare its staff to prepare for the iPhone 5, suggesting the device may hit stores sooner than analysts think.

The Chinese factory plans to hire 18,000 new employees to produce Apple's new handset, according to TV-Tokyo. The station interviewed a Foxconn recruiter who said the workers will be focusing on the new iPhone, which he expected will launch in June."More than one sources indicate that Apple's supplier, Foxconn is looking to scale up drastically.ccording to a report in CNet, a Foxconn recruiter told a Japanese broadcaster that "the company needs to hire about 18,000 people to manufacture the iPhone 5 because it seems it will go on sale in June."

While it's unclear if this latest rumor can be trusted, previous reports also said Apple would release the iPhone 5 in June. In March, Reuters reported that Apple plans to unveil the next iPhone "around the second quarter" of 2012. While this report would mean a release in June or July, it did contradict an earlier report from Japanese blog Macotakara, which believed, citing inside sources from the supply chain, Apple would release the iPhone 5 in September or October, effectively abandoning mid-year iPhone launches for a 11-month upgrade cycle starting in the fall.

Apple launched the iPhone 4S in October of last year and the release of a new device any earlier in this fall would likely be too close for comfort for the company. Launching a new handset less than a year after the iPhone 4